This is the message from Buncrana's Mayor who is urging one company whose 2 billion euro and 4,000 jobs plan went down the drain in Galway because of lack of water.

Mayor Dermot McLaughlin has told the 'Journal' we have an excellent natural resource at the Pollan Dam and the government 'must be made aware of this so we can get companies to set up camp here'.

He told the Journal he learnt, while watching an RTE programme called 'The Last Drop' the massive company allegedly couldn't invest in Galway because there was an uncertainty over the level of water that would be available.

He told the Journal that Inishowen isn't short of water, unlike a host of other counties in the country and if the company still wanted to come to Ireland then 'why not come to Buncrana'.

He told the Journal: "The interesting thing about the programme was that there is a pharmaceutical company, they were going to go to Galway and invest there but because there was a problem with the water supplies they pulled out.

"I am going to raise this at the next council meeting.

"We have plenty of water in Buncrana and we sure could do with the jobs.

"Inishowen has an ample supply of water.

"I am going to be asking the IDA and the government to make this area a priority for investment of this sort.

"They are talking about the fact water is going to be scarce in the southern part of the country.

"We have a large supply here and If there is any possibility of any industry coming here - we did have Fruit of the Loom - we would be asking them to take us seriously.

"There has to be industries that need water.

"On the programme he said he can't say with certainty but the reason why they were pulling out of Galway was the water."

The Journal spoke with investigative journalist Philip Boucher-Hayes who said the pharmaceutical company were looking to locate in an industrial part of Galway, creating 4,000 jobs and invest 2.2billion euro.

He told the Journal: "Everything was in place, everything was agreed. They looked at the local skills, the work force, everything was right for them and then as we understand this the council wasn't able to guarantee them sufficient quantity of water for their production process so they pulled out."